No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

War is over ... If you want it.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.